Kirjahaku

Some scholars see James Joyce's Finnegans Wake as a work of satire and irony; others see it as a playground for the English language. I love the book, and its release into the public domain in many parts of the world enabled me to produce this illustrated Volume. Finnegans Wake endures the reputation of being one of the most challenging works of fiction in the English language. When asked what he made of it, Ezra Pound contended, "Nothing so far as I make out, nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization." Oliver Gogarty believed it was "the most colossal leg pull in literature since Macpherson's Ossian." But if a picture can clarify a thousand words, then perhaps pictures can help illuminate Joyce's masterpiece. My copy of Finnegans Wake includes 219,035 words. At one picture per one thousand words, it would take only 220 pictures to explain the entire text. This illustrated book, Volume 1, contains Finnegans Wake Book 1, Chapters 1 and 2, at 15,751 words. I have incorporated over 300 illustrations, so you can see that these two chapters are explained awfully thoroughly. At this rate, the final set of illustrated Volumes will contain over 4,170 images, an over-explanation ratio of more than 19:1. So quickly can confusing things come to brightness. All the illustrations are authentic and promote the tradition of prickly debate started with the publication of Joyce's original book. As critic Omar Gosh says, "It is a real piece of work." "I can't wait to see the movie." - Dick Tator, The Banana Republican. "We hope to carry on the tradition for this work of many initially negative reviews, ranging from bafflement to open hostility: It's a real piece of work." - Segovia Carpet, The Unterrified English Major News. "If Boose isn't America's leading classic literature illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing. "Where's Finnegan? Where's the wake?" - Ginger Vitas, The Typesetter Tabloid. "This is the best e-book I've ever seen." - Abraham Lincoln. "Here Comes - Pictures of - Everybody." - Vito Powers. "Even more dense and obscure than the original." - Stephen Dedalus, The Fowlmouth Forum. "Clearly, the author's mind is not polluted with a single idea." - Ira Gurgitate, The Emma Wroyd Journal of Paid Endorsements. "...truly... a book... Joyce... pictures... lunchtime..." - Felix Cited. "The author continues to erode the literary value of Finnegans Wake, now infesting it with dubious illustrations." - Daryl Lickt, The Cellar Door Shower "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald. "O june of eves the jenniest, thou who fleeest flicklesome the fond fervid frondeur to thickly thyself attach..." - J. Joyce, Finnegans Wake.

Do you want to read a great classic play illuminated with over 220 authentic illustrations? This book is the perfect mixture of turn-of-the-century British dandyism and 21st Century Dada. Here's what they are are saying about The Importance of Being Earnest Illustrated: "My five-year-old was very happy with this, after I gave him the crayons." - Lucinda Head. "This is the best e-book I've ever seen." - George Washington. "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing. "What's important? Who is Earnest? - Daryl Lickt. "When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. When one is in the bathroom one is amused by this." - Segovia Carpet. "The illustrations deeply affected my unconscious." - Sigmound Fraud. "The perfect blend of turn-of-the-century British dandyism and 21st Century Dada." - Ginger Vitas. "With the addition of all the pictures, it's now much funnier than any of my plays." - William Shakespeare. "Clearly, the author's mind is not polluted with a single idea." - Ira Gurgitate, The Emma Wroyd Journal of Paid Endorsements. "They are even bigger fops than Niles and I." - Frasier "C". "O june of eves the jenniest, thou who fleeest flicklesome the fond fervid frondeur to thickly thyself attach " - J. Joyce, Finnegans Wake.

Do you want to read a great classic illuminated with over 400 authentic illustrations? This book is the perfect mixture of P.G. Wodehouse and 21st Century Dada. Here's what they're saying about Right Ho Jeeves Illustrated: "This is the best e-book I've ever read." - Albert Einstein. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "Even the worst book has an end." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald, Dept. of Fine Arts, Florida University. "What does 'Right ho ' mean? Why does everyone keep saying it? What is a Jeeves?" - Vito Powers. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal. "...Jeeves... Wooster... pictures... classic... cocktail time..." - Mike Easter, The Hard Times. "This book made me physically ill, even worse than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains. "Until now, I had no idea what Jeeves and Wooster looked like." - Sheila Takya. "I'd rather be drinking." - Tyrone Shoelaces, The Quarterly Bungle. "With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits, Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth..." - William Shakespeare. "Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta won't quite approve..." - Oscar Wilde. "They laid him brawdawn alanglast bed. With a bockalips of finisky fore his feet... Tee the tootal of the fluid hang the twoddle of the fuddled, O " - James Joyce.

Some scholars see James Joyce's Finnegans Wake as a work of satire and irony; others see it as a playground for the English language. Its release into the public domain in many parts of the world enabled the production of this illustrated Volume. Finnegans Wake endures the reputation of being one of the most challenging works of fiction in the English language. When asked what he made of it, Ezra Pound contended, "Nothing so far as I make out, nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization." Oliver Gogarty believed it was "the most colossal leg pull in literature since Macpherson's Ossian." But if a picture can clarify a thousand words, then perhaps pictures can help illuminate Joyce's masterpiece. Finnegans Wake includes 219,035 words. At one picture per one thousand words, it would take only 220 pictures to fully explain the entire text. This illustrated book, Volume 2, contains Finnegans Wake Book 1, Chapters 3 through 7, with 53,565 words. With the addition of 295 illustrations, you can see that these five chapters are explained awfully thoroughly, with an over-explanation ratio of more than 5:1. So quickly can confusing things come to brightness. All the illustrations are authentic and promote the tradition of prickly debate started with the publication of Joyce's original book. As critic Ira Gurgitate proclaims, "It's a real piece of work." What They're Saying About Finnegans Wake Illustrated: "These illustrations look like I need a drink." - Rhoda Booke, Loose Change Quaarterly. "This is the best e-book I've ever read." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Gomer's Almanac. "This is the perfect mixture of an unreadable book and 21st Century Dada." - Sheila Takya, The Paid Endorser. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "Even the worst book has an end." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "What have I done to deserve this? Why was I born? Why am I living?" - Trudy Ages, The Trivial Messenger. "Even worse than I expected, which is saying something." - Rhoda Mule, KRUD Radio. "...Jeeves... Wooster... pictures... classic... cocktail time..." - Mike Easter, The Hard Times. "This book made me physically ill, even worse than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal. "It's like attending a wake for someone who died decades ago, then being served Champagne that's been sitting open all that time." - Lucinda Head. "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald, Dept. of Fine Arts, Florida University. "Finnegans Wake Illustrated has the look and pacing of a two-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their less bright classmates." - Helen Wheels. "I'd rather be drinking." - Tyrone Shoelaces, The Daily Bungle. "Finnegans Wake Illustrated is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It will make your children stupid." - Curt Reply, The Hard Times. "...so indescribably bad that I do not intend to waste anyone's time by describing it." - Segovia Carpet. "This Dada book is truly a modern surreal experience." - Salvador Doily. "With the addition of all the pictures, it's now much funnier than any of my plays." - William Shakespeare, Spinning in his grave. "It is very strange. This Mr. Bunbury seems to suffer from curiously bad health." - Oscar Wilde. "...your pristopher polombos, hence our Kat Kresbyterians; the curt witty wotty dashes never quite just right at the trim trite truth letter... look at this prepronominal funferal, engraved and retouched and edgewiped and puddenpadded, very like a whale's egg farced with pemmican..." - James Joyce.

Do you want to read a great classic illuminated with over 290 authentic illustrations? This book is the perfect mixture of Aesop's wisdom and 21st Century Dada. Here's what they're saying about Aesop's Fables Re-Illustrated: "This is the best e-book I've ever read." - Abraham Lincoln. "These illustrations look like I need a drink." - Rhoda Booke, Loose Change Quaarterly. "Even the worst book has an end." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "Even worse than I expected, which is saying something." - Rhoda Mule, KRUD Radio. "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald, Dept. of Fine Arts, Florida University. "...so indescribably bad that I do not intend to waste anyone's time by describing it." - Segovia Carpet. "This Dada book is truly a modern surreal experience." - Salvador Doily. "This book made me physically ill, even worse than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains. "I'd rather be drinking." - Tyrone Shoelaces, The Daily Bungle.

Do you want to read a great classic illuminated with over 300 authentic illustrations? This is a piece of work that will keep you up nights in wondrous awe, reading and drinking. It is the "perfect mixture of theological bedevilment and 21st Century Dada." Here's what they're saying about Dante's Inferno - Re-Illustrated: "These illustrations look like I need a drink." - Rhoda Mule, Loose Change Quarterly. "There should be other ways to illustrate a theme and make an existential point without scaring the reader witless." - Sheila Takya, New Century Dada Press. "Inferno is a very bad story, having, in its self-righteous and virtuous sentimentality, much in common with Do Trousers Matter?" - Segovia Carpet, Dept. of Fine Arts, Florida University. "...substituting sanctimony for empathy and polemic for poetry, it sets a bad example for literary art." - Vito Powers, US Congress. "Its romanticized two-dimensional, cutout characters strut and fret their hour on an unconvincing stage." - Barb Dwyer, The Looney Bin Bungler. "Even the worst book has an end." - Mike Easter, The Jiffy John Digest. "So many pictures, so little art." - Emily Pest, The Hourly World News. "This is the best book I ever read." - Abraham Lincoln, The Paid Endorser. "The picutres seem devoid of human values and completely unrealistic." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "The Inferno Re-Illustrated made me physically ill, even more revolting than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains. "It reminds me of Moose Murders." - Felix Cited. "What a great cure for insomnia " - Freida People, The Trivial Messenger. "The Illustrations are great because it cannot but deeply entertain us with its earnest vigor, its invincible belief in its own genius, its merciless craft, its transcendent obliviousness."- Lucinda Head. "This Dada book is truly a modern surreal experience." - Salvador Doily. "It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again." - Oscar Wilde, Being Earnest. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal. "Chee chee cheers for Upkingbilly and crow cru cramwells Downaboo Hup, boys, and hat him ... my guesthouse and cowhaendel credits will immediately stand ohoh open as straight as that neighbouring monument's fabrication before the hygienic gllll." - James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake.

Do you want to read a great classic illuminated with over 215 authentic illustrations? This book is the perfect mixture of truly Grimm fairy tales and 21st Century Dada. Here's what they're saying about The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Re-Illustrated: "We would love to read this 21st Century Dada book, if we were still around." - Marcel Duchump, Hans Earp, Max Earnest, Man Raygun, Tristen Zzorro, Salvador's Deli. "This is the best book I ever read." - Abraham Lincoln. "Historic violent and sexist claptrap padded with hundreds of witless images. It's sure to be a winner." - Lucinda Head, The Children's Minute. "What a great cure for insomnia " - Freida People, The Roman Tribune. "These illustrations look like I need a drink." - Rhoda Booke, Loose Change Quarterly. "Even the worst book has an end." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "Early to rise and early to bed make a man sleepy, stupid, and dead." - Benjamin Franklin. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Re-Illustrated made me physically ill; it's even more revolting than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains, The Institute of Perpetual Incontinence. "Even poorer than I expected, which is saying something." - Rhoda Mule, KRUD Radio. "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald. "In the words of Theodore Sturgeon, '90% of everything is crud, ' and this is no exception." - Ginger Vitas, The Dead Beat. "...most of the time, to see the truly bad takes training, but not here." - Helen Wheels, USA Yesterday. "Its romanticized two-dimensional, cutout characters (golden bird, naughty children, wicked mothers, sneaky elves, hapless shoemaker, frog prince, valiant tailor, little girl with a red hood, robber bridegroom, misguided peasants, large corrupt wolf, vain queen, talking cocktail) strut and fret their hour on an unconvincing stage." - Mike Easter, The Regional Enquirer. "I hate it for its superficiality and poor values." - Ben D. Rules, The Weed Daily. "I can't imagine how they will make it into a video game." - Curt Reply, The Washington Pest. "Warning: the behavior of many characters is pretty ruthless." - Vito Powers, The Strip Mall Journal. "...one of the ...vital and ...important ...Modern Dadaists we have." - Barb Dwyer, Mothers for Drunk Dadaists. "I'd rather be drinking." - Tyrone Shoelaces, The Daily Bungle. "...so indescribably bad that I do not intend to waste anyone's time by describing it." - Segovia Carpet, The Paid Review. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal.

Do you want to read a great classic illuminated with over 240 authentic illustrations? This book is the perfect mixture of Edgar Allan Poe's work and 21st Century Dada. Here's what they're saying about the Works of Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated: "This is the best book I ever read." - Abraham Lincoln. "Should you read it? Nevermore." - Ira Gurgitate, The Pittsburgh Drifter. "We would love to read this 21st Century Dada book, if we weren't dead." - Marcel Duchump, Hans Earp, Max Earnest, Man Raygun, Tristan Tzorro, Salvador's Deli. "...so indescribably bad that I do not intend to waste anyone's time by describing it." - Segovia Carpet, The Unpaid Reviewer. "These illustrations look like I need a drink." - Rhoda Booke, Loose Change Quarterly. "Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated made me physically ill; it's even more revolting than Boose's other illustrated classics." - Myra Mains, The Institute of Perpetual Incontinence. "Boose is an unbelievable illustrator." - F. Stop Fitzgerald. "Warning: the behavior of many characters is pretty ruthless." - Vito Powers, The Strip Mall Journal. "Even poorer than I expected, which is saying something." - Rhoda Mule, KRUD Radio. "Early to rise and early to bed make a man sleepy, stupid, and dead." - Benjamin Franklin. "...one of the ...vital and ...important ...Modern Dadaists we have." - Barb Dwyer, The Modern Guide to Drunken Dadaists. "So many pictures, so little art." - Amelia Barfup, The Hourly World News. "I'd rather be drinking." - Tyrone Shoelaces, The Daily Bungle. "If Boose isn't America's leading classics illustrator, I can see why." - Isabelle Ringing, The Illiterary Journal.